Matters were much improved when the see of Jamaica, which then included the Bahamas and British Honduras, was formed in 1824; and in 1870, when Disestablishment threw the Church almost entirely on to voluntary resources, it gave to it a new vitality. Many of the old Baptismal, Marriage and Burial registers are deposited for safe keeping in the Record Office at Spanish Town, where all the old church registers should be, as they would there have a chance of longer life than when exposed to the vicissitudes of local vestries, and would, moreover, be more readily available for research than when scattered throughout the island. It may be convenient to give here a list of the earliest date of the Baptismal, Marriage and Burial registers for the island, taken from “Sketch Pedigrees of some of the early Settlers in Jamaica. By Noel B. Livingston, Kingston 1909.” EARLIEST DATE OF PARISH REGISTERS Parish Baptisms Marriages Burials Kingston 1722 1721 1722 Port Royal 1728 1727 1725 St. Andrew 1664 1668 1666 St. Thomas ye East 1709 1721 1708 St. David 1794 1794 1794 Portland 1804 1804 1808 St. George 1806 1807 1811 St. Mary 1752 1755 1767 Clarendon 1690 1695 1769 St. Ann 1768 1768 1768 Manchester 1816 1827 1817 St. Catherine 1668 1668 1671 St. John 1751 1751 1751 St. Dorothy 1693 1725 1706 St. Thomas ye Vale 1816 1816 1816 Metcalfe 1843 1843 1843 Westmoreland 1740 1740 1741 St. Elizabeth 1708 1719 1720 Trelawny 1771 1771 1771 St. James 1770 1772 1774 Vere 1696 1743 1733 Hanover 1725 1754 1727 John Roby, Jamaica’s most celebrated antiquary, published (from notes made in 1824) in 1831, at Montego Bay, where he was then collector of customs, “Monuments of the Cathedral Church and Parish of St. Catherine.” The information therein given was included and supplemented by Lawrence-Archer in his “Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies,” published in 1875: and annotations to Lawrence-Archer’s account, by the present writer and Mr. N. B. Livingston, were published in “Caribbeana” for January and April 1910. A full account of the history of the Church of England in Jamaica may be gathered from the work of the Rev. J. B. Ellis, published in 1913, “The Diocese of Jamaica.”